ittle timidly,
when she found he added nothing to his former words.

"Yes."

"Don't _you_ like her?"

"Yes."

"Then why don't you know?"

"You don't like everything that I like," said her brother.

"Why yes I do! -- Don't I?"

"Not everything."

"What don't I?"

"Euripides -- and Plato."

"Ah but I don't understand those," said Winnie.

Winthrop was silent. Was that what he meant? -- was Winnie's
instant thought. Very disagreeable. And his 'yes's' were so
quiet -- they told nothing. Winnie looked at her brother's hand
again, or rather at Miss Haye in her brother's hand; and
Winthrop pursued his own meditations.

"Governor," said Winnie after a while, "is Miss Haye a
Christian?"

"No."

Winnie asked no more; partly because she did not dare, and
partly because the last answer had given her so much to think
of. She did not know why, either, and she would have given a
great deal to hear it over again. In that little word and the
manner of it, there had been so much to quiet and to disquiet
her. Undoubtedly Winnie would have done anything in the world,
that she could, to make Miss Haye a Christian; and yet, there
was a strange sort of relief in hearing Winthrop say that
word; and at the same time a something in the way he said it
that told her her relief had uncertain foundation. The 'no'
had not been spoken like the 'yes' -- it came out half under
breath; what meaning lurked about it Winnie could not make
out; she puzzled herself to think; but though she could not
wish it had been a willing 'no,' she wished it had been any
other than it had. She could not ask any more; and Winthrop's
face when he went to his reading was precisely what it was
other evenings. But Winnie's was not; and she went to bed and
got up with a sore spot in her heart, and a resolution that
_she_ would not like Miss Haye, for she would not know her well
enough to make sure that she could.

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THE HILLS OF THE SHATEMUC.

VOL. II.

CHAPTER I.

Ha, ha! what a fool honesty is! and trust, his sw